Cono Christian School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472212522
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016
- Location
- Glen Rose, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8178947940
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,606
- Expenses
- $978,271
- Assets
- $3,098,376
- Liabilities
- $206,960
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gail Prutow (President)
- Greg Harrod (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Gail Prutow (President): $52,912 total reported compensation
- Jane Jelgerhuis (Director): $35,750 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Cono Christian School, Inc. ("CCS" or "Cono") provides families and their children a place that fosters hope and reconciliation. We offer a safe place for our students to move beyond current confusions and conflict, disruptive, aggressive and even violent behaviors, the effects of developmental trauma, a community in which every child can discover at a deep level that they belong. Seeking the welfare of not only our children (students), but also an outside society, we work as a team of parents who must find innovative responses to behaviors which defeat already defeated kids. Cono's parent-teacher: "people who steward their lives, communities, resources, and relationships" in service to children in need. Teens thrive in a Christian community that gives them voice, the ability to become genuine "selfs" - in a safe place to explore and grow into mature young adults.
What it reported doing in 2016
Cono Christian School, Inc. provides a residential education for students whose behavior reflects the effects of developmental trauma.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 73% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 43
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 76.6%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -697.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.17; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -22.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -106.5% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -21.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 76.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $749K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $53K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2015 to 2016
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.